WordPress

A widely-deployed PHP-based content management system.

WordPress powers a substantial fraction of the public web — estimates put it above 40% of all sites — making it the dominant content management system in the world. It started as a blogging platform in 2003 (forked from b2/cafelog) and has grown into a generalised CMS with a vast plugin and theme ecosystem.

Matt Mullenweg co-founded WordPress with Mike Little in 2003, and his company Automattic has driven much of the project's direction since. Gutenberg, the block-based editor introduced in 2018, was a contentious shift away from the classic "big text area" editing model toward a more modern, JavaScript-driven editing experience.

WordPress remains the path of least resistance for many bloggers, small businesses, and content sites. The plugin ecosystem covers e-commerce (WooCommerce), forms (Gravity Forms, WPForms), SEO (Yoast, RankMath), and most other needs. Many shared-hosting providers offer one-click WordPress installs as their flagship product.

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Category: Web

Website: https://wordpress.org/

Install

Self-hosted: download from https://wordpress.org/download/
Or via Docker: docker run -p 8080:80 wordpress:latest
Many shared-hosting providers offer one-click installers.

Authors

Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little (creators)
Automattic and the WordPress community

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